Baccharis articulata
Species of flowering plant in the daisy family
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Baccharis articulata is a species of shrub in the family Asteraceae.[2] also known as carqueja.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Baccharis |
| Species: | B. articulata |
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The species was first described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, but was later reclassified by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1807.[3] The species is used for a variety of medical uses and is also native to parts of South America.
Medical uses
Distribution
It is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.[5] It can be found in the Paranaese forest.[7] It was also introduced to Spain.[1]
Flowers
Like almost all baccharis species, Baccharis articulata is dioecious[8] with unisexual flowers. The flowers are visited by Discodon, Apis mellifera, Lucilia sericata, and Ruizantheda divaricata.[2]
In August and September, the plant has multi-petal flowers which are pale greenish yellow.[3]
Common names
In Portuguese, the species goes by the common name carqueja-branca, carqueja-doce, and carquejinha.[2][9]
In English, it goes by the common name salt water false willow.[10]